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                    [Title] => Thai farmers put pressure on PM over rice payments
                    [Summary] => 

Hundreds of disgruntled Thai farmers breached razor-wire barricades outside the prime minister's temporary office yesterday to protest the government's delayed payments from last year's rice crops.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-18 05:08:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767626 [AuthorName] => Thanyarat Doksone [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1287663 [Title] => Thailand's flagship rice buying policy turns sour [Summary] =>

An ambitious rice buying program that Thailand's ruling party hoped would aid millions of its poor rural supporters may instead help bring down the increasingly cornered government.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-07 04:11:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767626 [AuthorName] => Thanyarat Doksone [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://imageshack.com/a/img843/2011/ezbd.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 911081 [Title] => China rejects status as world's biggest trader [Summary] =>

China has a new status its government doesn't want — world's biggest trader.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-20 06:34:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 910815 [Title] => China rejects status as world’s biggest trader [Summary] =>

China’s government has taken the unusual step of publicly denying it passed the United States last year as the world’s biggest trader — a politically sensitive status.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 841225 [Title] => China raises rare earths export quota for 2012 [Summary] =>

China on Wednesday slightly increased this year's quota for rare earths exports under controversial controls on the exotic minerals needed by manufacturers of mobile phones and other high-tech products.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-23 08:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825816 [Title] => China's premier warns of further economic slowdown [Summary] =>

China's economy faces "huge pressure" to slow further despite stimulus measures, Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday, damping hopes for a quick recovery from the deepest slump since the 2008 global financial crisis.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-08 19:59:48 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 762762 [Title] => China cuts 2012 rare earths export quota [Summary] =>

China announced a cut Tuesday in its rare earths export quota as it tries to shore up sagging prices for the exotic metals used in mobile phones and other high-tech goods.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-29 04:40:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 758452 [Title] => Investment in China falls amid world doldrums [Summary] =>

Foreign investment in China fell nearly 10 percent in November in the latest evidence of the rising toll that weakness in the West is taking on the world’s No. 2 economy.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 758176 [Title] => China slaps anti-dumping duties on US-made cars [Summary] =>

China has imposed duties on imports of some US-made vehicles, claiming damage from foreign automakers due to dumping and subsidies in the latest round of trade friction between the two countries.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-14 21:31:42 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 729140 [Title] => China defends chicken tariffs after US complaint [Summary] =>

 China says that the tariffs it imposed on imports of U.S. chicken last year are legal, after the United States filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization saying Beijing violated international trade rules.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-21 14:02:33 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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